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Sudden Selector’s Guide to Anthropology

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Foreword

Is subject-area knowledge for collection development still necessary or even important in these days of tight budgets, vendor selection, patron-driven acquisitions and nearly-instant access? My answer continues to be a resounding “Yes!” It is vital for selectors to have an understanding of how their subjects “work,” in terms of research, publication, and selection; selectors link a library’s collection to its local audience, meeting the needs of researchers and faculty as well as the broader community. Selection by vendors, in the form of approval plans, can indeed create workflow efficiencies, but it takes a knowledgeable selector to set up an effective plan that can account for local needs as well as budgetary and space restrictions. The time saved by such plans allows selectors to both hone the margins of a collection to strengthen it, and to conduct increasingly valuable liaison work with user groups. Patron-driven collections fill immediate demands and can indicate trends, though a selector needs to keep track of the overarching goals of a collection—something individual patrons rarely, if ever, think about. Thus, the need for selectors familiar with their disciplines as well as the production and dissemination of information in it is imperative. The ongoing purpose of the Sudden Selector series is to provide current information on selection in specific subject areas, to assist selectors in creating a manageable process in unfamiliar subject territories.

Helene Williams Editor, Sudden Selector’s Guide Series March 2012 Updated March 2018 3

Preface

On the Sudden Selector’s Series

The Sudden Selector series was created by the Collection Management Section (formerly Collection Management & Development Section) of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services division of the American Library Association. It is designed to help library workers become acquainted with the tools, resources, individuals, and organizations that can assist in developing collections in new or unfamiliar subject areas. These guides are not intended to provide a general introduction to collection development but to quickly furnish tools for successful selection in a particular subject area. However, there are many tools that are pertinent for all subject areas and although not explored in detail in the guides, the following should be mentioned.

Guides to Collection Development

Evans, G. Edward, and Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro. Collection Management Basics, 6th ed. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2012. This text serves as an authority on all areas of collection development, from user assessment, collection development policies, evaluation, deselection, and legal issues. This popular resource, in its many editions, has served as a standard text in collection development training.

Johnson, Peggy. Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, 4th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2018. This guide by one of the key authorities in collection development covers many of the same areas as Evans and Edward. Johnson provides a comprehensive overview of the issues such as policies, planning, developing and managing collections, marketing and outreach activities, and collection analysis. The writing is engaging and its information is useful for both beginning professionals and seasoned selectors.

Disher, Wayne. Crash Course in Collection Development, 2nd ed. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2014. This title is part of the Crash Course series from Libraries Unlimited, and is aimed toward a new selector without any selection experience or for those with little to no professional experience. Although the general concepts covered may be useful for beginning academic librarians, it is focused toward the needs of public librarians.

Gregory, Vicki L. Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections: An Introduction, 2nd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2018. This approachable guide provides brief introductions to the major issues and workflows in collection development and management, and also includes examples of vendor lists, an assessment report, and an e-resources license.

Burgett, James, John Haar, and Linda L. Phillips. Collaborative Collection Development: A Practical Guide for Your Library. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004. This guide provides first-hand experience and advice for successful collaborative collection building. The guide provides models and strategies for research, budgeting, promotion, and evaluation.

Alabaster, Carol. Developing an Outstanding Core Collection: A Guide for Libraries, 2nd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2010. This handbook provides instructions on how to build an adult public library collection from the ground up as well the tools to maintain an existing collection. The guide provides a wealth of resources for public library collection development as well as sample core lists.

Review Sources

Choice www.ala.org/acrl/choice/ Reviews in Choice magazine, published monthly by the American Library Association, and Choice Reviews Online are targeted to academic library collections and reviews emphasize the importance of the title in collection development and scholarly research. Choice includes approximately 600 reviews (per month) organized by subdiscipline for books, electronic media and internet resources and as well as publisher advertisements and announcements for new and forthcoming publications. Choice Reviews Online provides access to issues from 1998 to the present. There are added features to the online version of the magazine including personalized profiles and title lists and an advanced search screen.

Library Journal Book Reviews http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/ Library Journal Prepub Alert http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/category/prepub/ Library Journal magazine provides brief reviews of titles on all topics and is aimed at both public and academic libraries. The reviews provide a brief summary of the title and recommendations for library audience and selection. Reviews are available in print issues of the magazine and online through various databases and as a weekly email for new review title alerts.

Booklist www.ala.org/offices/publishing/booklist www.booklistonline.com/ Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association, publishes more than 8,000 recommended-only reviews of books, audio books, reference sources, video, and DVD titles each year. Booklist also provides coverage of ALA award winning titles and is available online with enhanced content such as advanced searching options and personalized profiles and lists.

Publisher’s Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/ This magazine is also available through an online subscription and serves as a trade publication for professionals in the library and publishing fields. Its coverage includes industry news, trends, events and book reviews. More than 7,000 book reviews are published annually and written by both freelance reviewers as well as well-known authors. The reviews are divided by fiction and non-fiction.

Electronic Discussion Lists and Web Sites

COLLDV-L http://lists.ala.org/sympa/info/colldv COLLDV-L includes issues of acquisition but also covers more broad issues of collection management, such as policy development, deselection issues, and collection evaluation. It is a moderated discussion directed towards library collection development professionals, bibliographers, selectors, and others involved with library collection development.

ERIL-L www.eril-l.org/ ERIL-L’s purpose is to cover all aspects of electronic resources in libraries. In addition to collection management librarians, participants include reference personnel, systems librarians, and vendors with topics ranging from usage statistics to product issues to licensing. The list is moderated and archived.

Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Collection Management Section (CMS) www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/cms The purpose of CMS is to contribute to library service and librarianship through encouragement, promotion of, and responsibility for those activities of ALCTS relating to collection management and development, selection, and evaluation of library materials in all types of institutions. The section develops publications, online courses, and other tools for the training and further development of collection management. 6

This list is not meant to be exhaustive, but simply an introduction to some of the resources available for getting up to speed in collection development. As the Sudden Selector guides are subject-specific, most of the above resources are too general for inclusion in the main text. However, personnel responsible for collection development should ultimately be familiar with most of them. Additionally, for the most exhaustive bibliographies for further research, consult the guides to collection development listed above.

Doug Litts Smithsonian Institution Libraries American Art Museum & National Portrait Gallery Editor, Sudden Selector’s Guide Series 2006–2009

Helene Williams Editor, Sudden Selector’s Guide Series, 2009-2018 Updated 2018

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Chapter 1

Welcome to Anthropology Librarianship!

An Introduction and Overview

Anthropology is arguably the most diverse field in academe. It ranges in focus from

archaeology, to evolution and primate studies, linguistics, and observation of current cultural

practices. Methodologically, it may include any combination of lab work, library and archival

research, and fieldwork. The materials vary significantly, including visual records such as film

and photography, sound recordings, ancient artifacts, dusty notebooks, digital records, and

biological materials. In practice it is highly interdisciplinary, intersecting with biology, political science, geography, art history, literature, religion, sociology, history, and more. Collection development for any subject can be a challenging task; anthropology, with its many subfields, may exceed the typical challenge. Whether you are brand new to anthropology, or well-versed in

many of its facets, Sudden Selector’s Guide to Anthropology is designed to provide you with an

access point to the diverse realms of the field and the resources that will allow you to build and

maintain strong collections to serve your community, no matter where their research interests lie.

This guide is designed to facilitate your collection development processes in two ways.

First and foremost, this is a bibliography of resources; it is neither a review of “books for college

libraries,” nor an annotated list of key items to add to your collection. Rather, it presents the

major resources of the field for finding these items, as well as lists of key publishers, databases,

collections of reviews, organizations within anthropology and librarianship, directories, and

subject guides. Secondly, it can be taken as a mini-course in anthropology librarianship. 9

Chapter 2, What is Anthropology?, provides a quick overview of the field along with suggestions for getting up to speed with the discipline. Chapter 3, Anthropology Librarianship, discusses the inhabitants of the field and how to approach and work with them. Chapter 4,

Anthropology Resources, covers the information lifecycle of anthropology and the economics of the discipline. Chapter 5, Selection and Acquisition for Anthropology, dives into the major resources and vendors for collection development, organized by item type. Suggested readings throughout the book provide ample opportunity to both become more familiar with topics in anthropology librarianship as well as some key works in the field of anthropology.

Whether you are an experienced librarian taking on anthropology as a new subject area, a new librarian well-versed in anthropology as a discipline, or any other combination of experience and education serving an anthropological audience, this guide is for you. Even an experienced anthropology librarian can benefit simply from the colocation of collection development tips and bibliography of resources that this guide provides. The authors approached the writing of this book from two distinct backgrounds, and found it an educational experience to compile and synthesize the information for this book. While one of us has a strong educational background in cultural anthropology, the other had never taken an anthropology course at all. One of us has worked in collection development and open access projects across many disciplines, while the other has been more narrowly focused on anthropology. We have both learned about anthropology and anthropologists significantly in our work as librarians, and we have both had the experience of being a new liaison to an anthropology department. It is from this experience and from our current understanding of anthropology librarianship that we approached the project of researching the current state of the field and writing this volume on how to best build 10 collections to serve local needs. We have considered the writing of this book a part of our continuing adventure in anthropology librarianship and we welcome you in joining us!

Chapter 2

What is Anthropology?

Introduction

In this chapter we will survey the scope of the discipline, professional organizations, learning and networking resources, and mentorship opportunities. By the end of this chapter, you will have a solid foundation upon which you can start building your collections and your career in anthropology librarianship.

Definition of Field

Most frequently-used words from six “what is anthropology?” web pages.

What is anthropology? In the broadest sense, it is the study of humans and human

activities in both the past and the present. Because the human experience is so complex, and

anything humans do (or interact with) can be the subject of anthropology, anthropologists draw

upon the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences in their work. In the United States,

anthropologists were traditionally trained in four fields (though this is changing): cultural 12 anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. This four-field structure derives from the history of anthropology in the United States, which developed in the nineteenth century as a means to understand Native North American tribes as they were enclosed into reservations by the United States Government and its agents. The founder of academic anthropology in the United States, Franz Boas, made the cultural, physical, linguistic, and historical/archaeological study of Native Americans central to the discipline and as anthropologists expanded the scope of their field, this interdisciplinary approach endured.

Cultural anthropology studies human culture, the organizing concept for the belief systems that shape a society’s practices (such as gender and family relations, religion, violence, and health). Study is primarily based on direct observation of a cultural group, observation that can last for years; the written description of this direct observation is known as ethnography.

Cultural anthropologists record their observations in notebooks (field notes) and use those notes as the basis for their scholarly work. When the discipline was still young, research focused primarily on native populations in North America, but it has since grown to cover the globe

(which also leads to connections between anthropological work and area studies programs).

Because of the focus on writing and interpretation, cultural anthropology is the most humanistic of the four fields and will often engage with theoretical concerns from other humanities disciplines. Two (of the many) sub-specialties within cultural anthropology are medical anthropology (the cultural context for illness and health and thus an area of study that engages with medical and scientific literature extensively) and visual anthropology (visual representation of cultural practices). Today, cultural anthropologists may also embed themselves in traditionally unusual field sites such as corporations, libraries, and even online communities. 13

Archaeology studies the human experience by focusing on the impact of past human

activities on physical landscapes and the resulting material remains, such as buildings, rock art,

pottery, and human or animal bones. Archaeologists are concerned mostly with the past, from

prehistoric life to more recent history. Archaeological work takes place in field sites, often in

remote areas, but can also involve working underwater studying shipwrecks, or working in urban

areas when new construction (of buildings or of roads) can reveal evidence of forgotten human

activity (older buildings, centuries-old garbage dumps, or even graveyards that have been buried

and forgotten over time). The physical context of material remains is crucial to identification and

interpretation, so archaeologists produce a lot of documentation in the field, relying on written

descriptions, sketches, photographs, and soil samples to help contextualize discovered objects.

The emphasis on context also means that archaeologists must be concerned with literature from

the physical sciences, with biology, geology, and botany being the most prevalent.

Biological anthropology is the most science-oriented of the anthropology fields.

Biological anthropologists study human variation going back to our prehistoric ancestors, as well as through study of primates who are biologically close to our species. Originally, this field was known as physical anthropology because of its focus on physical characteristics as a marker of human variation, with an emphasis on racial types. As the discipline developed and became increasingly concerned with the prehistoric as well as genetic variation – and as a way to signal distance from racial (and racist) theories – practitioners have tended to embrace biological as a modifier over physical. Depending on the area of research, biological anthropologists may be working in labs, observing primates in nature, or in field sites digging up human remains.

Linguistic anthropology studies language variation across cultures as well as across time.

Linguistic anthropology research can resemble cultural anthropology when it is concerned with 14 language as a vehicle for cultural expression as the focus is very ethnographic (observation, field notes). But the concern for documenting language variation, including the analysis of parts of speech and assembling grammars or dictionaries, brings out the strong relationship with the discipline of Linguistics. Anthropologists working on languages will also make extensive use of field recordings (both audio and visual), either that they themselves have produced in the field, or those produced by others.

Although not one of the four fields, it is important to mention museum anthropology.

Anthropology museums have long held a central place in the publication of anthropological scholarship and in public engagement. There are anthropology museums at a number of research institutions and many anthropology programs will offer coursework, certificates, or degrees in museum studies / museology. Museum anthropology is the study and practice of the curation, preservation, interpretation, and display of anthropological collections, and connects anthropology to material studies, art and art history, folklore, and archives. It is rarely seen as a separate field however, as it cuts across all four; anthropologists working in museums may come from cultural, archaeological, biological, or linguistic perspectives.

Getting Up to Speed and Staying There

Given the diversity of the field described above, how is one to master all of this literature and stay abreast of current scholarship? This section will help you discover resources and suggest approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding the discipline and keep up with current trends, but always keeping in mind that you will have other demands on your time.

First, strive to understand the different information needs of the different parts of anthropology; this book is a good start in that direction. Supplement what you learn from this 15

book with local practices: what are the information-use patterns of faculty or graduate students at your institution? Take a look at faculty CVs or publications they may have listed on their university or personal website. Informally scanning the citations from their recent publications will give you a sense of what your faculty think important; you can do a more formal survey of all of their publications if time allows (given the paucity of information studies of anthropologists, a formal study could lead to publication). Similarly, if your department has an active graduate program, analyzing the citations from the last few years of theses can give you further sense of how anthropologists make use of library resources. Whatever the scope of your investigations, note the use of monographs versus use of journal articles, as well as publishers and journal titles. If there are publishers that are frequently cited, you may want to take special note, and if you have an approval plan make sure they are in your profile. Journals that are frequently cited (or frequently published in) can similarly be targeted for subscription.

Next, work on understanding the content of the discipline. Textbooks, although often unexciting, can be a good place to start. Browsing the table of contents and some of the chapters will give you a survey of key concepts, important individuals, and methodologies. If you have time to audit courses, this can be a great way to both acquire disciplinary knowledge and to get to know some of your faculty. If auditing a course at your institution is not feasible, look for online lectures.

If you have access to Annual Review of Anthropology, it is highly recommended. Annual

Review contains substantial review essays that cover specific topics in each sub-field. For example, the 2014 issue has articles on the archaeology of illicit trade, evolution, corporations, organ transplants, the idea of Roma “ethnicity,” disability, and international development. That is quite a range (and not all of the articles published are included in that list). Each article is 16 designed to survey recent debates and provide extensive bibliographies, so Annual Reviews can give you a valuable overview of a topic (including the names of important scholars) and give you suggested readings that can help you read further on the topic or that you can use as a checklist to evaluate your library collections.

Two publications from the American Anthropological Association should be on your regular to-read list. Anthropology News comes out monthly and provides news about the

Association (including reports from each section) and features short articles offering anthropological perspectives on current topics in the news as well as member perspectives on issues facing the profession. The Association’s flagship journal, American Anthropologist, is a venue for research articles and book reviews relevant to the four fields, as well as public and visual anthropology. Of particular note are the annual “Year in Review” articles published in the

June issue each year (this feature began in 2009), in which scholars from the four fields plus public anthropology survey trends in their discipline over the past year.

Current events and progress in the field of anthropology can be monitored via numerous types of news resources, from the traditional scholarly society-based newspapers and magazines

(such as Anthropology News mentioned above) to more recent blogs run by individual scholars, research-based interest groups, as well as scholarly societies. These resources, much like Annual

Reviews, are not just important for bringing you up to speed in the field, but are also important to consider in your collection development, as they are of equal value to students discovering the field, as well as appreciated by faculty. Many are open access resources, and faculty likely have their favorites already, but many require a subscription and faculty may yet be unaware of some high quality resources. So it is beneficial to you to be aware of them both for your own education 17

and for your outreach and instruction efforts. To get you started, we will make a few

recommendations:

Traditional News Sources in Anthropology

● American Anthropological Association, Anthropology News, www.anthropology-

news.org

● American Association of Physical Anthropologists, AAPA News,

http://physanth.org/news

● Archaeological Institute of America, Archaeology Magazine, http://archaeological.org

● Council for Museum Anthropology, “Museum Anthropology,”

http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com

● Society for American Archaeology, SAA Archaeological Record,

www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/Publications/TheSAAArchaeologicalRecord/tabid/64/Def

ault.aspx

Selected Anthropology Blogs

● “Anthrodendum,” https://anthrodendum.org/ (Popular group blog, primarily cultural

anthropology; formerly “Savage Minds,” with archives at http://savageminds.org)

● “Anthropology Blog Newspaper,” www.antropologi.info/blog (Displays the most recent

posts of a selected group of blogs, mostly cultural anthropology)

● “Anthropology Blogs,” https://www.livinganthropologically.com/category/anthropology-

blogs/ (Annotated, alphabetical lists compiled annually) 18

● “Anthropology.net,” http://anthropology.net (Reports on recent articles for all four fields,

though primarily on biological anthropology and archaeology)

● “Footnotes,” https://footnotesblog.com/ (Group blog on ethnography and the profession

of anthropology generally from a critical, postcolonial perspective)

● “John Hawks’ Weblog,” http://johnhawks.net/weblog (Paleoanthropology)

● “Neuroanthropology: Understanding the Encultured Brain and Body,”

http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology (Intersection of cultural and biological

anthropology and the locus of an emerging field)

● “The Pleistocene Scene,” https://blogs.wellesley.edu/vanarsdale (Paleoanthropology)

● “Somatosphere,” http://somatosphere.net (Medical anthropology and more)

Professional Organizations

For your further education and professional development within librarianship, the

Association of College and Research Libraries offers the Anthropology and Sociology Section

(ANSS). This section offers programming at the American Library Association conferences, including an Anthropology Discussion Group that allows librarians to learn about trends in anthropology or in librarianship, as well as networking and professional service opportunities.

The section’s newsletter, ANSS Currents, runs articles of professional interest as well as regularly reviewing library resources (see http://anssacrl.wordpress.com/publications/reviews for a list of reviews published so far). ANSS-L (http://anssacrl.wordpress.com/publications/anss-l), an email list for ANSS, is also a valuable tool for keeping up professionally, especially between conferences and if you are unable to attend section functions in person. There are also many

Sections, Interest Groups, and Round Tables within ALA that are focused on with specialized 19 topics ranging from numeric data to social responsibilities, that you may also find useful for specific information needs. You can find a full list at the ALA website (http://www.ala.org).

While ANSS is the most prevalent means for anthropology librarians to keep up professionally, you may also find that belonging to anthropology scholarly societies is helpful.

The main organization is the American Anthropological Association (AAA), founded in 1904, covers all four fields as well as serving as the public face of the discipline as a whole. There are a number of sections, each with their own publications (see www.aaanet.org/sections for a list).

The AAA website is also a place to find information about the discipline, professional issues, and links to online anthropological resources, including links to other anthropology (and related) societies and organizations (www.aaanet.org/resources). Depending on your interests or those of the researchers at your institution, you may also want to investigate these additional organizations:

● American Association of Physical Anthropologists, http://physanth.org

● The Archaeological Institute of America, www.archaeological.org

● Society for American Archaeology, http://saa.org

● Society for Linguistic Anthropology, http://linguisticanthropology.org

Further Readings

● Dale, Melody, Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, Sheeji Kathuria, and Mary Ann Jones, “Assessing the Openness of Anthropology Journals,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 49.1 (October 2017): 123-139. https://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jsp.49.1.123.

14 Ibid. 41

● Harley, Diane, Sophia Krzys Acord, Sarah Earl-Novell, Shannon Lawrence, and C.

Judson King. “Archaeology Case Study.” In Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly

Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines,

edited by Diane Harley, Sophia Krzys Acord, Sarah Earl-Novell, Shannon Lawrence, and

C. Judson King, 29-135. Berkeley, CA: Center for Studies in Higher Education,

University of California, Berkeley, 2010. (Available OA at:

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15x7385g#page-37)

● Kayongo, Jessica, and Clarence Helm. “Citation Patterns of the Faculty of the

Anthropology Department at the University of Notre Dame.” Behavioral & Social

Sciences Librarian, 28.3 (2009): 87-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639260903089040

● Kelty, Christopher M., Michael MJ Fischer, Alex Golub, Jason Baird Jackson, Kimberly

Christen, Michael F. Brown, and Tom Boellstorff. “Anthropology of/in Circulation: The

Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies.” Cultural Anthropology, 23.3 (2008):

559-588. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00018.x

● Robinson, William C., and Paul E. Posten. “Literature Use of Scholars Publishing in

Leading Anthropology Periodicals.” Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 23.2

(2005): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1300/J103v23n02_01

● Schmid, Oona. “Anthropological Information Needs: Survey Report.” Anthropology

News, 50.6 (2009): 22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2009.50622.x

● Sutton, Allison M. and JoAnn Jacoby. “A Comparative Study of Book and Journal Use in

Four Social Science Disciplines.” Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 27.1 (2008):

1-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639260802152709 42

Chapter 5

Selection and Acquisition for Anthropology

Introduction

In chapter four, we explored the information lifecycle and economics of anthropology publishing. This chapter moves us from theory to practice, outlining key resources for finding anthropology items so that you can jump into action with your collection development duties.

We will look at the publishers, vendors, indexes, and bibliographies, via which you can find the items to build your collections. Each of the following sections presents a selection of open access finding aids and publishers, small presses, niche publishers, major publishers, foreign language publishers, vendors, bibliographies, indexes, literature reviews, and so on, as appropriate to the section. Some of these appear across multiple sections, so that you can find them easily when referring back to these lists, and to highlight the many facets of usefulness of any given resource.

Finding & Purchasing Resources

The following sections are primarily lists of access points and vendors. For more detailed information about selecting particular items, reviews and collection development policies can serve as guides. For instance, The Library of Congress publishes their collection development policies online (www.loc.gov/acq/devpol) including ones for anthropology. The Library of

Congress is of course at an extreme end of collecting, but it can be of great value for precisely this reason; it is often easier to identify what you do not need from someone else’s policies, than what might be missing.

Reviews are more diversely deployed. They are found in purchasable packages such as

Booklist (www.booklistonline.com) and Choice Reviews (http://www.choice360.org/), as well as 43 within myriad library science and anthropology publications. Slip-services such as Choice provide valuable passive selection tools; they feed you information without you having to go searching for them. However, they may be too expensive for some libraries. Publisher catalogs and reviews published in field-based academic journals can serve as a strong alternative, though one that is somewhat more of an active process. This process of seeking out reviews is valuable in and of itself, as it will expose you to the latest anthropological research as well as catch some of the more unique items from small publishers that have not yet been picked up by the bigger reviewing companies. For thorough overviews of the hot research topics in the field and recent publications, anthropology-based resources such as Annual Review of Anthropology

(www.annualreviews.org/journal/anthro) and the LIS journal, Behavioral and Social Sciences

Librarian (www.tandfonline.com/toc/wbss20/current), offer literature reviews and bibliographies on regularly rotating topics. The Anthropology and Sociology Section of the Association of

College and Research Libraries (ACRL-ANSS) also occasionally publishes bibliographies and reviews on their website (http://anssacrl.wordpress.com) and in their newsletter, ANSS Currents

(http://anssacrl.wordpress.com/publications/currents).

Resources and their vendors often change or are replaced by newer products, so one should proactively search for new vendors at conferences and on the internet. The following lists of products and publishers should provide a solid starting point from which you can gain an understanding of the types of products to be on the lookout for, and key names and titles in the field of Anthropology.

Guides and Bibliographies 44

Much like this volume, there are many targeted guides and bibliographies that can help

you navigate collection development and reference interactions in many of the subfields of

anthropology. Reference works are an essential starting place for researchers and librarians alike.

With so many to choose from on so many topics, meta-reference resources can be an essential

tool for the selection process. And similarly, the briefer research guides and focused

bibliographies put out by other anthropology librarians can be excellent resources for quickly

familiarizing yourself in new areas. The following are particularly notable books and other

publications that fulfill these needs:

● Association of College & Research Libraries, Anthropology & Sociology Section.

“ANSS – The Anthropology and Sociology Section of the Association of College and

Research Libraries (ACRL),” http://anssacrl.wordpress.com

● Herron, Nancy L. The Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources.

Englewood, Colo: Libraries Unlimited, 2002.

● Jackson, John L. Jr., ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Oxford University

Press, 2015. www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/anthropology

● Jacoby, JoAnn, and Josephine Z. Kibbee. Cultural Anthropology: A Guide to Reference

and Information Sources. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.

● Ogburn, Joyce L. Anthropology Resources For Librarians. Appalachian State University,

Boone, NC, 2018. https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/listing.aspx?id=22664

● ProQuest Editors and Choice Editors. Resources for College Libraries. ProQuest.

[Annual].

Additionally, there are focused bibliographies and publication lists that are put out by various anthropologists and anthropology-related organizations. Many of these are linked off of 45 organizational websites, or can be found with a keyword search on the internet, but a great way to discover them is via outreach – ask your local anthropologists if there are any that they use to stay up to date.

Reference Works

Reference works, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks, are essential guides for people studying anthropology and librarians alike. Much as a student can obtain a quick overview of a topic, the new anthropology librarian may consult these to note key theories, significant anthropologists, and how anthropology frames its understanding of many terms and ideas that are shared across the many disciplines. A “quick overview” is the essential idea to keep in mind; reference books should be easy to access and search within, and therefore, they are particularly suited to e-book and website format. The amount you rely on electronic resources vs. physical ones may vary depending on how much space you have in your physical library, the needs and location of your students, and whether you can afford to pay for electronic resources, which may have single fees (as with print items) or recurring maintenance and subscription fees.

Some vendors offer multiple options for how you pay for electronic resources, so be sure to ask.

The following publishers are especially good to keep an eye on, as they regularly publish reference works for anthropology. Additionally, many of the publishers listed in the Monographs section of this chapter also publish reference works.

● Alexander Street Press, http://alexanderstreet.com

● Gale, https://www.gale.com/

● Oxford Reference, http://www.oxfordreference.com/

● Sage, www.sagepub.com 46

● Simon & Schuster, www.simonandschuster.com

● Taylor & Francis, www.taylorandfrancis.com

● Thames & Hudson, www.thamesandhudson.com

● Wiley, www.wiley.com

Monographs

Monographs, or books, are used to wildly varying degrees across the subfields of anthropology in a way that is fairly predictable based on the subfield’s position relative to the social sciences or the physical sciences. Cultural and linguistic anthropology are heavily reliant

on books, while the majority of subfields within physical anthropology use journal articles more,

and archaeology falls somewhere in the middle ground. Nonetheless, as discussed in Chapter 4,

each of the subfields of anthropology use and produce a plethora of books each year, both in

print and electronically.

As with reference works, you must consider a number of factors in determining whether

you will provide your users with electronic or physical copies of monographs. For instance:

● Are your users local or remote?

● Do your users just need to view an item briefly, or will they be doing extended close

readings? (e-books may pose difficulty for long, in-depth reading)

● Are your e-books easily downloadable/printable/shareable?

● Do you have space to house print items?

There are a growing number of publishers and vendors of e-books, and each one has its own license terms which dictate whether you will be able to put items on course reserves, share them via interlibrary loan, how many users can view an item at a time, how much of a book may be 47

downloaded or printed out, and so forth. There may also be different prices offered by the same

publisher for different license terms, or different terms for the same titles across multiple host

platforms. For instance, an e-book published by Springer may have different license terms if you

purchase it off of their site or from Ebook Central. Some of the bigger vendors of e-books and e- book packages include:

● Ebook Central (by ProQuest), (includes the former EBL, eBrary, and hundreds of

publishers) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/

● Ebscohost eBooks (formerly NetLibrary, includes content from Brill, Elsevier, IGI

Online, Oxford, Palgrave), www.ebscohost.com/ebooks

● Duke University Press Books, https://read.dukeupress.edu/books

● Elsevier, www.elsevierdirect.com

● JSTOR (includes content from multiple academic presses, with some open access

ebooks), http://books.jstor.org

● Project Muse (includes content from multiple academic presses), http://muse.jhu.edu

● SAGE Online, www.sagepub.com

● Springer, www.springer.com

● Taylor and Francis Online, http://taylorandfrancis.com/online/taylor-francis-ebooks/

● Wiley Online Library, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

There are also a growing number of open access (OA) e-books. One major supplier is The

National Academies Press (www.nap.edu), which sells print books, but offers virtually all of their books for free electronically as PDFs. Likewise the University of Michigan Press’ Digital

Culture (http://www.digitalculture.org/), the international project Knowledge Unlatched

(http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/), and other groups are creating large collections of OA e- 48

books. For more distributors, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at

Simmons, maintains a fantastic list of additional publishers of OA books

(http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Publishers_of_OA_books).

The following chart of publishers notes for which subfields of anthropology each of them

offers a particularly strong selection of titles. Many of the publishers cover the other subfields to

some extent, however this list is designed to be a quick go-to guide identifying the strongest

options for each subfield. Most of these publishers have print and e-book options, and a growing number, such as the aforementioned National Academies Press, offer their e-book options Open

Access. Some major anthropology publishers, such as Earthscan and Altamira have not been individually listed, as they are subsidiaries of, or distributed by, other companies which are listed and whose websites include their books (in this case, Taylor & Francis and Rowman &

Littlefield, respectively.) Finally, the major professional organizations, such as the American

Anthropological Association (AAA), and Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and

Ireland (RAI), as well as many of the smaller more focused organizations, often put out individual monographs or book series, which are important to monitor. However, these professional organizations have been left off of this chart as their content-foci are clearly tied to the foci of the organizations, and their publications are typically more limited in volume than those on this chart of major publishers to watch. For more on the professional associations, see chapter two.

Key

● “X” marks which subfields are well-covered by each publisher. ● Cult = Cultural Anthropology ● Arch = Archaeology ● Bio = Biological Anthropology 49

● Ling = Linguistic Anthropology

(Chart starts next page)

Press Cult Arch Bio Ling

ABC-CLIO, www.abc-clio.com X X X

Archaeopress, www.archaeopress.com X

Bagchee, www.bagchee.com/books X X X X

Barkhuis, www.barkhuis.nl X

Berghahn, www.berghahnbooks.com X

Bloomsbury https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/ X X X

Brill, www.brill.nlwww.cambridge.org X X X

British Museum, www.britishmuseum.org X X

Bureau of Land Management (US), https://www.blm.gov/learn/blm-library/agency- X publications

Cambridge University Press, www.cambridge.org X X X X

Cornell Open, http://www.cornellopen.org/titles/ X

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (UCLA), http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/press/ X

Council for British Archaeology, http://new.archaeologyuk.org/books-and-publications X

Coyote Press, www.coyotepress.com X X X

Duke University Press, www.dukeupress.edu X X X

Elsevier, www.elsevier.com X X X X

Equinox Publishing, www.equinoxpub.com X X

Getty Research Institute, www.getty.edu/research/publications X X

Harvard University Press, www.hup.harvard.edu (includes Peabody Museum Press) X X X X

Indiana University Press, www.iupress.indiana.edu X X X

John Hopkins University Press, www.press.jhu.edu X X X

Lit Verlag http://www.lit-verlag.de/kataloge/ X X

LSE Press, https://press.lse.ac.uk/ X

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk X X

MIT Press, http://mitpress.mit.edu X X X X

Musée du quai Branly, http://quaibranly.fr/fr/editions/les-publications-du-musee/ X X 51

National Academies Press, www.nap.edu X X X X

Ohio University Press / Swallow Press, www.ohioswallow.com X X X

Oxbow Books, www.oxbowbooks.com X X

Oxford University Press, www.oup.com/us X X X X

Palgrave McMillan, www.palgrave.com X X X

Penn Museum Press, www.penn.museum/research/museum-publications X X X

Penn State University Press, www.psupress.org X X X X

Perseus Books Group, www.perseusbooksgroup.com X X X X

Peter Lang, www.peterlang.com X X X

Pluto Press, www.plutobooks.com X

Princeton University Press, http://press.princeton.edu X X X X

Rowman & Littlefield, https://rowman.com/ X X X X

Sage Publications, https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/books X

Sean Kingston Publishing http://www.seankingston.co.uk/publishing.html X

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, https://scholarlypress.si.edu/ X X X

Society for American Archaeology, http://ecommerce.saa.org/saa/Member/For_the_Public/Marketplace/SAAMember/Store/St X oreLayouts/Product_Categories/Monographs_Books.aspx

Springer, www.springer.com X X X X

Taylor & Francis, www.taylorandfrancis.com X X X X

University of Alabama Press, www.uapress.ua.edu X X X X

University of Alaska Press, www.alaska.edu/uapress X X

University of Arizona Press, www.uapress.arizona.edu X X X

University of California Press, www.ucpress.edu X X X X

University of Chicago Press, www.press.uchicago.edu X X X X

University of Hawai'i Press, www.uhpress.hawaii.edu X X X X

University of Michigan Press, www.press.umich.edu X X

University of Minnesota Press, www.upress.umn.edu X 52

University of Nebraska Press, www.nebraskapress.unl.edu X X

University of New Mexico Press, www.unmpress.com (includes SAR Press) X X X

University of North Carolina Press, www.uncpress.unc.edu X X

University of Pennsylvania Press, www.upenn.edu/pennpress X X

University of Toronto Press, www.utppublishing.com X X

University of Utah Press, www.uofupress.com X X X X

University of Washington Press, www.washington.edu/uwpress X X

University of Wisconsin Press, http://uwpress.wisc.edu X

University Press of Florida, www.upf.com X X

Wiley, www.wiley.com X X X X

World Scientific, www.worldscibooks.com X

WW Norton & Co., http://books.wwnorton.com X X X

Yale University Press, https://yalebooks.yale.edu/ X X X

With so many publishers to keep track of, the value of slip services and approval plans in helping

you select books is clear. A slip service, in which your book vendor suggests books that align

with your collection development guidelines (such as particular publishers or call number

ranges) is sometimes included for no extra cost from the vendors from which you purchase

books. Publishers also typically take the initiative to send free catalogs and recent-publication

email notifications to librarians to promote their own materials. If you are not receiving relevant

publisher catalogs or email notifications, just contact them directly to request these.

Approval plans are also often available through your book vendor to automatically

purchase items that align with your collection development guidelines. Be careful in determining

your call number ranges however; Anthropology books may appear in many ranges, as well as

intermingled with works from other fields. If you can afford it, a quick and easy way to make

sure you do not miss important items is to set up a plan that covers all Association of American 53

University Presses (AAUP) books within your relevant call number ranges. A full list of AAUP members can be found on the AAUP website (www.aaupnet.org/aaup-members/membership- list).

Selecting individual items can create a more specialized, focused, and often more financially viable collection, however. As such, it is important to be able to evaluate items for your collection. Key questions to consider include:

● Does this cover topics being used for research and instruction?

● Is the content at an appropriate level for our community of users?

● Does this book fill a gap in our collections (content-coverage)?

● Who are the author and publisher? (Are they authoritative and reliable?)

Earlier we discussed aspects of e-books that you should consider before choosing a vendor/platform through which to obtain an e-book. Similar concerns hold for print books as well. For instance, some publishers offer more durable bindings than others. Further, while you might be tempted to save money by purchasing paperback volumes (and possibly re-binding them in house), remember that not all paperback bindings are created equally.

The previous chart of book publishers includes a number of publishers from outside of

North America, as well as many which have strong international area-studies and regionally focused offerings. However, it includes relatively few non-English language publishers, and few small international publishers. It is highly likely that any anthropology librarian will have a need for items from around the world, but as each anthropology department will have significantly different foci, no one list of international sources will easily accommodate. Other librarians and your community of users will often be your best resources for identifying publishers and vendors. Anthropologists typically monitor presses in their areas of study and can provide links 54

or contact information for obscure sources. In some cases, your best option may be to give a

budget to faculty when they travel to remote locals for their fieldwork. The American Library

Association also offers travel grants to librarians to attend large book fairs around the world

(www.ala.org/irrt/irrtcommittees/irrtintlexc/internationalopportunities). Provided you have the

relevant language skills for the areas you collect in, this can be both highly useful and a lot of

fun.

But even if you cannot travel, many of the larger international vendors can be found with

an internet search, and are fairly easy to identify. For instance Sub-Saharan Africa is well

covered by African Books Collective (www.africanbookscollective.com), and D.K. Agencies

(www.dkagencies.com) is the main vendor for items from South Asia. Others are less intuitive,

such as Iberoamericana Vervuert (https://www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es/) and Iberbook-

Sánchez Cuesta (www.ibersaculib.com) in Spain for Latin American publications, YBP in the

United States for many international publishers, including UNISA and Langaa for Anglophone

African publications, and Amalivre (http://amalivre.fr) for Francophone West Africa.

Some excellent lists of international and area-studies publishers exist in the form of bibliographies and guides, as mentioned in that section of this chapter, and a little bit of searching online and in your library collections is likely to find ones that fit your needs. One such directory is maintained by ALA’s Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

(ALCTS), the searchable online database of vendors and publishers in Eastern Europe, Central

Eurasia, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Pacific: ALCTS Foreign Book Dealers Directory

(http://ala.org/CFApps/bookdealers).

As you get further into your work as an anthropology librarian, you also will likely encounter requests for rare and out-of-print items that cannot be readily obtained from their 55

original publishers. Luckily sites such as Amazon.com, Alibris.com, and smaller, specialized

book sellers online and off, can make the process of hunting these items down much easier than

it once was. Yet, these vendors will sometimes fail to have your needed item in stock as well.

Sometimes a deep search and some creative troubleshooting are necessary; such as checking

Worldcat.org and contacting librarians at other holding-libraries to find out where they purchased the items.

Datasets & Statistics

Raw and partially-described data can be a useful addition to anthropological research.

While anthropological research typically is focused on collecting and curating one’s own data, it would be remiss to overlook datasets and statistics that are collected and curated already.

Further, to get to the details behind published articles, anthropologists often want to track down the source data. Government and academic organizations are the main curators of data and statistical sets, however a growing trend in the social sciences is to manage one’s own datasets digitally, leading to more shareable data in more places.

Many organizations that offer research grants, such as the National Science Foundation, are now requiring data management plans to be included in grant applications. The position of

Social Sciences Data Librarian is becoming a common one as social science librarians are more and more becoming the people who assist with data management plans, and the resulting data management process. Conference presentations and webinars on the librarian’s role in data management are a good place to discover more on this topic. For further information, consult recent articles on talking to faculty about their data, such as Jake Carlson’s “Demystifying the 56

Data Interview,”15 Katherine Akers and Jennifer Doty’s “Disciplinary Differences in Faculty

Research Data Management Practices and Perspectives,”16 and posts on Databrarians

(http://databrarians.org). For data curation from the perspective of anthropologists, see Ben

Marwick and Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, “A Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Archaeological

Data as an Incentive to Data Sharing”17 and Celia Emmelhainz’s three posts on ethnographic data on Savage Minds (https://savageminds.org/author/cmemmelh/).

The following list of sources and vendors should help you meet your community’s needs for sources of data. You may find it useful to collaborate with a government documents, sociology, or political sciences librarian, as they may already provide access to many of these or want to share the cost with you (as discussed in Chapter 4.)

● Anthropology Online, https://alexanderstreet.com/products/anthropology-online

● CIA World Factbook (OA), https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook

● Data.gov (OA) – portal to all of the US government data sites, https://www.data.gov/

● DataCite (OA) offers a database of data repositories for the sciences and social sciences,

https://www.re3data.org/

● The Digital Archaeological Record (partially OA), https://www.tdar.org

● Archaeology Data Service (OA)- contains material from British and Irish Archaeological

Bibliography (BIAB), unpublished fieldwork (grey literature), archival documents, and

published archaeological work, http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/

● Eurostat (OA) – statistics from European Union countries, http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat

15 Jake Carlson, “Demystifying the data interview: Developing a foundation for reference librarians to talk with researchers about their data,” Reference Services Review. 40.1 (2012): 7-23. 16 Katherine G. Akers and Jennifer Doty, "Disciplinary differences in faculty research data management practices and perspectives." International Journal of Digital Curation 8.2 (2013): 5-26. 17 Ben Marwick and Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, “A Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Archaeological Data as an Incentive to Data Sharing,” Advances in Archaeological Practice, 6.2 (2018): 125-143. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2018.3 57

● General Social Survey Data Explorer (OA), https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/

● Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (partially OA),

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/

● The Minnesota Population Center (OA), https://pop.umn.edu/

● Murray Research Archive (OA), https://murray.harvard.edu/

● Open Access Directory's Data Repositories List (OA),

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories

● Social Explorer, https://www.socialexplorer.com/

● Roper Public Opinion Archives (OA), https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/

Audio-Visual Resources

Audio-visual resources can be one of the most fun and yet most harrowing categories of items to collect. On the fun side, there are often free previews in the form of audio samples, images, and film trailers. On the harrowing side, items can sometimes come with a large price tag and in a variety of formats. For instance, films often require libraries to purchase group- viewing licenses for classroom use. Subscriptions to collections of image and streaming video databases can have large recurring fees.

The impact that a well curated collection of audio-visual resources can have on teaching and research is worth it though. And many of these fees can be balanced out, or avoided, with the expanding range of open access offerings out there. While physical collections of films, images, and audio recordings are certainly still in use, audio-visual media is at the forefront of the trend to move to online, streaming formats which can be accessed easily from the classroom and off- campus. This is reflected in the following list. 58

For ease of use, the list is divided into subsets of “Audio,” “Films,” and “Images &

Interactive Media.” Some vendors and publishers repeat across these categories, as they offer multiple types of media. Open access items are noted with “(OA)” after their titles, though these lists are relatively brief in their coverage of OA collections. The Council for the Preservation of

Anthropological Records maintains a much longer list of anthropological archives and other resources (http://copar.org/links.htm). Internet searches for “ethnographic recordings” or

“anthropological recordings” are another quick way to discover some of the many sources not listed here.

Audio Recordings

● British Library Sounds (OA), https://sounds.bl.uk

● Ethnographic Sound Archives Online, https://alexanderstreet.com/products/ethnographic-

sound-archives-online

● Internet Archive (OA), https://archive.org/details/audio

● Library of Congress Digital Collections (OA), https://www.loc.gov/collections/

● National Film & Sound Archive Australia (OA), https://www.nfsa.gov.au/

Films

● Archaeology Channel (OA), http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

● Bullfrog films, http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/

● Docuseek2, http://docuseek2.com/

● Ethnographic Video Online, https://alexanderstreet.com/products/ethnographic-video-

online-series

● Evia Digital Archive (OA), http://eviada.webhost.iu.edu/Scripts/default.cfm 59

● Filmakers Library Online, https://alexanderstreet.com/products/filmakers-library-online-

second-edition

● Films Media Group, https://ffh.films.com

● Icarus Films, http://icarusfilms.com

● Journeyman Pictures, https://www.journeyman.tv/

● Kanopy, https://www.kanopy.com/

● Library of Congress Digital Collections (OA), https://www.loc.gov/collections/

● Moving Image Archive - Internet Archive (OA), https://archive.org/details/movies

● National Film & Sound Archive Australia (OA), https://www.nfsa.gov.au/

● National Film Board of Canada (OA for individuals, subscriptions for institutions),

https://www.nfb.ca/

● Vision Maker Media , http://www.visionmakermedia.org/films

● Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Ethnographic Film,

https://raifilm.org.uk/

● The Video Project, https://www.videoproject.com/

● Women Make Movies, http://www.wmm.com/

Images & Interactive Visual Media

● All The World’s Primates, https://www.alltheworldsprimates.org/

● ARTstor, http://www.artstor.org/

● The Biology Project (OA), http://www.biology.arizona.edu/

● eSkeletons Project (OA), http://www.eskeletons.org/

● Flickr Commons (OA), https://www.flickr.com/commons 60

● Library of Congress Digital Collections (OA), https://www.loc.gov/collections/

Periodicals

Anthropology, no matter the subfield, is highly reliant upon journals. To provide strong

support for anthropological research, you must provide access to journals and databases. There

are many options for databases that will provide indexing or full-text access for general anthropology coverage, and for specialized coverage of each of the subfields. Some of these are free and others carry a high price tag, so it is important to know your options while striving to give your anthropologists the best coverage possible. Most journals offer full-text online and print options, though some are exclusively online, and others have yet to venture onto the web.

Whether or not you can afford to purchase large packages of journals, you will want to be able to evaluate the quality of individual journals as well as how well used they are by the community you serve. Journal Impact Factor is one way to judge the quality of journals. Impact factors can be gauged through a number of resources, including Journal Citation Reports

(http://jcr.incites.thomsonreuters.com), Google Scholar Metrics

(https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=soc_anthropology),

Eigenfactor (http://www.eigenfactor.org/), and other such sites. Jason Baird Jackson provides a thorough discussion of impact factor and anthropology publishers in a 2011 article.18 Altmetrics

is an additional and growing method of measuring the impact of journals and articles via page

views, downloads, and some social media factors.19 These ‘alternative metrics’ will become more important to be aware of as more Open Access journals and other new methods of

18 Jason Jackson, September 5, 2011 “How Enclosed by Large For-Profit Publishers is the Anthropology Journal Literature?” Shreds and Patches Blog. http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2011/09/05/how-enclosed-by-large-for-profit- publishers-is-the-anthropology-journal-literature. 19 For an early overview of altmetrics, see Jason Priem, Dario Taraborelli, Paul Groth, and Cameron Neylon, “Altmetrics: A Manifesto,” October 2010. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/ 61

publishing grow – both for your collection development, and for scholarly communications

purposes.

Core journals lists can also be found in a number of publications, such as the occasional

journal article in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian and in the reference resource

Magazines for Libraries. The journal Abstracts in Anthropology

(http://journals.sagepub.com/home/aax) also provides insight into what is being published and where, covering the four fields with three thousand abstracts per volume (8 issues per year). To get a solid sense of your local community’s needs, talk with the people in it and ask your database and journals vendors for use-statistics of your online resources. The following sources for periodicals are broken into sections for large publishers, small specialized publishers, and finally a list of major databases and indexes.

Smaller Publishers

Many smaller organizations within anthropology, with either topical or regional foci,

independently publish their own journals. Often, rather than purchasing a subscription to these

journals, libraries purchase “memberships” to these organizations to gain access to subscriptions.

Your anthropologist-users are often your best resource for learning which of these are worth

investigating. Searching the internet for anthropological associations in your region will also find

useful resources. Lists of these smaller organizations are also often compiled by the larger

organizations as in the brief selection of lists linked here:

● American Anthropology Association sections

http://www.americananthro.org/ParticipateAndAdvocate/SJDList.aspx 62

● Council of Affiliated Societies of the Society of American Archaeologists

http://ecommerce.saa.org/saa/Member/About_the_Society/Council_of_Affiliated_Societi

es/SAAMember/About_SAA/CoAS.aspx

● American Association of Physical Anthropologist’s list of Other Associations

http://physanth.org/about/other-associations/

Large Periodicals Publishers

There can only be so many publishing giants, and so the following alphabetical list is brief. Wiley has an exclusive deal with the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the British Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), while Elsevier and Springer are especially strong in the areas of biological sciences. Yet, each publisher has worthwhile journal offerings for each of the subfields.

● Elsevier, https://www.elsevier.com/

● Sage, https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam

● Springer, https://www.springer.com

● Taylor & Francis, https://www.tandfonline.com/

● Wiley, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com

● University Presses20

Databases & Indexes

The following chart lists major databases and indexes relevant to anthropology, and notes for which subfields they have the strongest coverage. The majority of databases listed are focused on scholarly journals/articles, but some contain other content, such as fieldnotes or news.

20 For a list, see the chart of presses in the Monographs section of Chapter 5. 63

Key

● “X” marks which subfields are well-covered by each publisher ● “x-“ indicates minor, but still relevant coverage ● Cult = Cultural Anthropology ● Arch = Archaeology ● Bio = Biological Anthropology ● Ling = Linguistic Anthropology (Chart starts next page)

Anthropology Databases & Indexes Cult Arch Bio Ling

All the World’s Primates, https://alltheworldsprimates.org/ X

Annual Reviews, www.annualreviews.org X X X X

Anthropological Fieldwork Online, https://alexanderstreet.com/products/anthropological-fieldwork-online

Anthropological Index Online*,21 https://aio.therai.org.uk/ X X X x-

Anthropological Literature*, X X X X www.ebscohost.com/academic/anthropological-literature

Anthropology Online, https://alexanderstreet.com/products/anthropology- online

Anthropology Plus*, www.ebscohost.com/academic/anthropology-plus X X X X

AnthroSource, www.aaanet.org/publications/anthrosource X x- x- X

Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts, http://aata.getty.edu/Home x- X

Biosis Citation Index, http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/specialized/bci x- X

Archaeology Data Service, http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/ X

Ethnic NewsWatch, http://proquest.libguides.com/enw X x- X eHRAF Archaeology, http://ehrafarchaeology.yale.edu/ehrafa/ X eHRAF World Cultures, http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/ehrafe/ X

GeoBase, https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/engineering- X X village/content/geobase

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences**,22 X X http://proquest.libguides.com/c.php?g=86981

JSTOR23 https://www.jstor.org/ X X X X

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts**, x- X http://proquest.libguides.com/c.php?g=87080

21 Anthropology Plus is a combination of the content from Anthropological Index Online and Anthropological Literature. 22 Proquest also offers a combination package titled Proquest Social Sciences Collection Premium, which combines many of their database offerings, including International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, and Sociological Abstracts, as well as additional databases for the social sciences. 23 Various JSTOR packages cover different subfields. 65

Medline / Pubmed, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed X

ProQuest Biological & Health Science Professional, https://media2.proquest.com/documents/pq_biological_health_science_pro X f_prosheet.pdf

Scopus, https://www.scopus.com/ x- X X x-

SocIndex, www.ebscohost.com/academic/socindex X

Sociological Abstracts**, http://proquest.libguides.com/c.php?g=86993 X

Web of Science, https://clarivate.com/products/web-of-science/ X X X x-

Zoological Record, http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/specialized/zr x- X *see endnote 21; **see endnote 22

Conclusion

A good selector should always be exploring, on the lookout for new publishers, publications, and types of materials as these shift over time as well. Open access publications and new media claim territory from traditional publishers, making similar earthquakes as online journals made in the 1990s. Likewise, the landscape of anthropology is perpetually shifting as new foci and subfields emerge. This chapter serves as a launch pad from which any new anthropology selector can set off into the space of collection development for many years to come.

While the principles of anthropology remain similar over time, anthropology selectors need to keep up to date on the topics, methods, and interests of the anthropologists they serve.

Being an anthropology selector means being a student of the discipline as much as an instructor of library research. It is truly one of the most exciting fields to work with; the diversity of the field and the changes to come, there should always be something new and interesting to keep you engaged in your work.

“Pop-out Boxes” to insert

Popout Box 1: Befriend the office staff!

(for Ch 3: Talking with Anthropologists section )

No one is better equipped to keep you informed about the goings-on of your anthropology department (as a whole entity) than the people who have to coordinate their courses, business affairs, and office-hours lists. My first stop in a new department is always to introduce myself to the people working in the department's office. In the worst case scenario, these people may be your only point of contact for hard-to-reach faculty, and in the best cases, they'll invite you over every time there is cake being served.

Popout Box 2: Colleagues to Check in With

(for Ch 3: Identifying User Needs section)

Talking to the circulation and interlibrary loan (ILL) staff at your library can help you determine what types of items might be needed by your departments. Is there a particular journal from which multiple articles are often requested for ILL? Are there books that are always being put on reserve, or for which multiple copies are regularly in use? If departments communicate with each other about high-demand items, they can collaborate to better build the collections based on the community’s real use of items. For instance, an ILL department can use their statistics to inform librarians in charge of purchasing, when it would be more cost-effective to add a book or journal to the library collections, instead of paying for multiple repeat-requests via ILL. Likewise, if ILL receives a request from a faculty member for a particularly obscure item, they can send the request along to the appropriate subject specialist for more in-depth searching or potential 67 purchase. Not only does this result in more faculty requests being satisfied, and therefore happier faculty, but the librarians also learn more about the current research interests of their faculty.